The protection of mental integrity between property, commons and cognitive liberty

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO
Author/s Paolo Sommaggio
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/1
Language Italian Pages 31 P. 98-128 File size 321 KB
DOI 10.3280/SD2022-001005
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Neurotechnologies represent both an extraordinary opportunity for our intellectual capacities and a risk for the security, privacy, autonomy and integrity of our minds and cognitive acts. Therefore, it is very important to find legal protection for the mind and its contents, that is, to recognise as an individual and social value the integrity of cognitive processes linked, or not, to the subjectivity of the individual. If this issue has traditionally been addressed through recourse to categories such as individual private property, a new perspective could allow the mind (and its products) to be recognised as having a peculiar "status", like the one of the Commons. In this essay, I question the elements of these Commons: The Mental Integrity and the Cognitive Liberty.

Keywords: Cognitive Liberty - Neurorights - Mental Integrity - Commons

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Paolo Sommaggio, La tutela della integrità mentale tra proprietà, beni comuni e libertà cognitiva in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO " 1/2022, pp 98-128, DOI: 10.3280/SD2022-001005